or at the end of the series is the camera going to pan to Hossa's face as he bursts into tears and stabs himself to death with his own skates after losing 3 finals in a row?

1.(o) Blackhawks will win
2.(o) Flyers win and Hossa kill himself with a rusty skate
3.(o) What the $*% is hockey

as much as I am hoping for #2, I have a feeling the blackhawks will take it.. shame its not MTL and chicago for the cup though

flyers ftw

there will be blood..

I'm liking Blackhawks in this one.. I don't like Kane much, but Toews is one hell'a player. And that team is just soooo deep.

Not that the Flyers aren't a deep team. Any team that's good enough that Briere can't fit on the first line, is doing pretty well. Just they can't match up roster wise with Chicago.

Though knowing Pronger, he'll probably injure 2 or 3 hawks before getting tossed from the series to help even things out :P

What the deleted explicative is hockey?
Is it fixed like professional basketball?

he's undersized and over rated. all of buffalo was, go ask new york how they feel about chris drury. the two of them are useless and way over priced
(both are better than me, i realize)

chicago, though it would be fun to see hossa lose three in a row

Flyers

#2

Flyers ftw ... or at least this playoff season

Hawks should win, so much talent and they still have the toughness. Not as tough as the hawks but their skill more than makes up for the gap. Should be a really good series either way :p

and yes it is fixed
that's why 2 of the Canadian teams are out :p
horrible officiating, but I'm likely biased anyways

montreal just sucked though and philly outplayed them entirely.... but in the first round or two there was some questionable stuff going on with calls/missed calls/inconsistent calls, same with the other two canadian series, especially Vancouver/LA.

8th seed, and gonna take it all

I was half expecting to see Montreal in this final. The usually thing seems to be for the last few years is a badly seeded canadian team makes it to the final and losing in 7. Riding thier goalies and a defencemen or 2 all the way there.

Calgary (Kipper and Regier?sp) then Edmonton (Roloson&Pronger)... This year would have been Halak&Gill

Montreal though was just outmatched by Philly. 3 shutouts and a few periods durring that time when they didnt even take a shot.

sooner or later the all out defence with the odd run the other way was gonna catch up to them. I was already shocked when they beat the Capitals. Even more so when they beat the Penguins.

it made it fun to watch thier games but wasn't a recipe for success.

Thinking hawks will probably take it.. but cheering for the Flyers.. also would love to see "Losing in Triplicate: The Marian Hossa Story"

That was a great game to watch!

GO FLYERS!!!!!! let freedom RING

game 2 tonight... prediction

Blackhawks 4, Philly 2

Currently 0-0 start of the second,

I'm going to call OT 1-1, Philly (Hartnell) scoring 1st OT winner

Marion Hossa is cursed. the black hawks will lose fo sho.

It seems that the Phlyers are going to wait until they are down 3-0 in this series just to make it dramatic . . .

Go Blackhawks!!

heh saw this and thought you guys might like to see it...

History will be made...

http://www.youtube.com/...v=8zjzxP3utNM&feature

the Hawks will win in 4.